Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838)

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 359

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DOI

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scientific name

Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838)
status

 

Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838) . Ann. Franc. Etr. Anat. Phys., 2:337.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., "rapportée des mers du cap de Bonne-Espérance" (= Cape of Good Hope) .

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: temperate to tropical waters.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: floweri , goodei , grayii .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Caldwell and Caldwell (1989).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Physeteridae

Genus

Kogia